The Kootenay ICE are in Red Deer tonight.
This is the 3rd meeting of the season, the home team has won the previous games.
Rebels won 4-2 in September and ICE won 4-1 four weeks ago.
ICE are coming off a 6-1 win over Prince Albert on Saturday.
The Rebels lost 3-0 in Edmonton on Saturday, the 2nd time they’ve been shutout this season.
For the ICE it’s the start of the schedule where they play 9 of the next 10 games of the road.
The ICE and Rebels have pulled away from the rest of the Central Division teams.
ICE are in 1st, the Rebels are 2 points behind with the ICE having a game in hand.
The game will feature the goalies with the best goals-against-averages as the Rebels Darcy Kuemper is 1st and ICE Nathan Lieuwen is 2nd.
ICE have a chance to tie a Franchise Record of 6 consecutive road wins. The club has won 5 straight away from home with victories in Edmonton, Medicine Hat and 3 in Calgary.
Red Deer has won 6 of 9 home games.
Brayden McNabb has 7 points (1-6-7) in his last 3 games.
Jagger Dirk has goals (3-0-3) in his last 3 games.
Red Deer has the leagues best penalty kill.
Leaders
ICE
Goals - 11 Kevin King
Assists - 15 King, Steele Boomer
Points - 26 King
Rebels
Goals - 13 Andrej Kudrna
Assists - 25 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Points - 32 Nugent-Hopkins
Head-to-Head
ICE
Matt Fraser 1-1-2
Jesse Ismond 1-1-2
James Martin 1-1-2
Steele Boomer 0-2-2
Hayden Rintoul 0-2-2
Rebels
Andrej Kudrna 1-1-2
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins 1-1-2
Byron Froese 0-2-2